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Last Saturday, the petit enfant terrible that governed Kaduna State for eight years, from 2015 to 2023, Malam Nasir el-Rufai, raised alarm that his successor, Governor Uba Sani, whom he called his godson, was responsible for the political violence that marred a rally he organized to foster the opposition parties Continue Reading

Zoning, the byword in Nigeria’s unsettled and unsettling political environment, is not about to go to sleep. If anything, it is reverberating by the day. At every level of our political arrangement, zoning has become such a constant variable that it is beginning to assume a life of its own. Continue Reading

Dr. Chidi Amuta’s article titled “Jonathan, Don’t Just Run… Please Flee!”, published in his Engagements column of August 24, 2025, is yet another example of the troubling genre of political revisionism masquerading as critique. While Dr. Amuta is entitled to his opinion, he is not entitled to distortions and selective Continue Reading

RE: Chidi Amuta’s ‘Jonathan, Don’t Just Run… Please Flee! BACKPAGE | 4 hours ago RIGHT OF REPLY –Setting the Record Straight on Dr. Goodluck Ebele Jonathan By Ikechukwu Eze Dr. Chidi Amuta’s article titled “Jonathan, Don’t Just Run… Please Flee!”, published in his Engagements column of August 24, 2025, is Continue Reading

In the kitchen of Nigeria’s democratic experiment – where the smell of reform and the smoke of recycled promise swirl together – the Independent National Electoral Commission has once more delivered a dish so audacious it has left the electorate confused and the opposition holding their guts. Yiaga Africa’s question, Continue Reading

We appear to be in a season of strikes. That is understandable. The cost of living is so high that many families are battling with hunger and other deprivations. Rather than get succour from the government, these families become victims of more biting policies they never bargained for in life. Continue Reading

In what has become a familiar ritual of Nigerian campus trade unionism, ASUU has served notice of an imminent work stoppage. It is all about long standing service agreements over benefits and allowances that have been lingering for the better part of the last few decade or more. In the Continue Reading

“In war, truth is the first casualty,” warned Aeschylus in ancient Greece. This ancient wisdom takes on chilling new meaning as we witness the emergence of a conflict where truth itself becomes both weapon and casualty. Beneath the surface of our daily digital lives, a new world war is already Continue Reading

Nigerian leader Bola Tinubu woke up the world last week, declaring he has ended corruption in Nigeria. He said, “The reforms I’ve embarked upon since I took over in Nigeria have been very impactful. It was initially painful, but today the result is blossoming…We have more money for the economy, Continue Reading

Shortly after one of his spokesmen, Ola Olateju, a professor, reported former vice president Atiku Abubakar as placing his desire to help rebuild Nigeria above his ambition to be president, another spokesman, Tunde Olusunle, quickly corrected what he described as the wrong impression given of the former vice president’s political Continue Reading